Culture, Capital and Representation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: Culture, Capital and Representation

   • Robert J. Balfour

   Pages 1-15

3. Colonialism, Displacement and Cannibalism in Early Modern Economic Thought

   • Hugh Goodacre

   Pages 16-34

4. Accounting Capital, Race and Benjamin Franklin’s ‘Pecuniary Habits’ of Mind in The Autobiography

   • Rekha Rosha

   Pages 35-48

5. A System Illusory and Immoral: Jonathan Swift and the Emergence of the Modern Economic Polity

   • Christopher J. Fauske

   Pages 49-66

6. Payments of Attention: Epitaphic Cash Flow in Gray and Wordsworth

   • György Fogarasi

   Pages 67-82

7. Money, Manhood and Suffrage in Our Mutual Friend

   • Ruth Livesey

   Pages 83-99

8. Feverish Speculation: the Railway Across the Isthmus of Panama

   • Marian Aguiar

   Pages 100-115

9. Reading Finance Capital

   • Leigh Claire La Berge

   Pages 116-131

10. The Gold Standard and Literature: Money and Language in the Work of Jean-Joseph Goux

    • Ben Roberts

    Pages 132-147

11. Producing and Consuming Agricultural Capital: the Aesthetics and Cultural Politics of Grain Elevators at the 1937 Paris International Exposition

    • Guillaume Evrard

    Pages 148-168

12. Finance and Film: Wall Street Myth and Mythopoeia

    • Elton G. McGoun

    Pages 169-183

13. Conclusion: Re-presenting Capital in Culture: the Necessary Persistence of Memory in a New Century

    • Robert J. Balfour

    Pages 184-201

14. Back Matter

    Pages 202-223

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With contributions ranging over three centuries, Culture, Capital and Representation explores how literature, cultural studies and the visual arts represent, interact with, and produce ideas about capital, whether in its early phases (the growth of stock markets) or in its late phase (global speculative capital).

• aesthetics
• capital
• Cultural Studies
• culture
• English literature
• memory
• Nation
• politics
• William Wordsworth
• British and Irish Literature

• University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

  Robert J. Balfour

• St Augustine College, Catholic University of South Africa, South Africa

  Robert J. Balfour

MARIAN AGUIAR Carnegie Mellon, USA ROBERT BALFOUR Registrar, St Augustine College, Catholic University of South Africa, South Africa GUILLAUME EVRARD Tutor in Art History, University of Edinburgh, UK CHRIS FAUSKE Associate Professor of Communications, Salem State College, USA GYORGY FOGARASI Associate Professor of Comparative Literature University of Szeged, Hungary HUGH GOODACRE Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Westminster, UK LEIGH CLAIRE LA BERGE Collegiate Assistant Professor of Humanities, University of Chicago, USA RUTH LIVESEY Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK ELTON MCGOUN William H. Dunkak Professor of Finance, Bucknell University, USA BEN ROBERTS Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Bradford, UK REKHA ROSAH Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Wake Forest University, USA